Très chouette retour d’expérience de @npub10dpu...463y sur Mastodon. Je me suis quand même senti vachement visé avec le coup des hommes blancs qui installent Linux et font du gravel le week-end. Elle a pas dit "barbus" mais elle l’a pensé très fort. Je tiens à préciser : le gravel, c’est pas que le week-end ! Et pas que Linux. Les BSDs, c’est bien aussi !
Depuis les Gorces
Ma petite vie sur Mastodon
#Société #Numérique Je suis depuis 2022 sur Mastodon, et j'y suis plutôt pas mal. Je voulais réfléchir sur mon usage de Mastodon car j'ai...
The candid naivety of geeks A tale of being surprised by Amazon, Apple, spammers and building the commons
The candid naivety of geeks
The candid naivety of geeks par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
Snac2 is a simple database-less/javascript-free alternative to Mastodon:
Codeberg.org
snac2
A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance written in portable C
 It looks very nice to run your own #fediverse server There are some screenshots here:
Codeberg.org
snac-style
Custom styles for [snac](https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2).
 Is anybody using it? #snarc2
20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 3) Read chapter 3 of the book I’m currently writing about the history of Linux on the desktop.
20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 3)
20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 3) par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
 Still looking for an agent or a publisher to make a dead-tree version of it… #computinghistory #linux #gnome #ubuntu #maemo
University professor, circa 2010 : You can’t trust Wikipedia. You cannot use it for your essay. University professor, circa 2025 : Here are powerpoint sildes on how to use ChatGPT to do your essay. Personal conclusion: the only problem with Wikipedia was that it was not corporately owned and that it had no marketing budget.
In the movie "Idiocracy" the president Camacho is really trying to do his best for his people, going as far as hiring people who did very good on intelligence tests. When it appears that Joe Bauers is the smartest man on earth and that he can grow plants, he becomes president without any violence. From all those aspects, you can tell that "idiocracy" is an utopia and feel-good movie.
If you are a Unix nerd and wish you spend less time using your mouse while watching flashy colors, I recommend that you give Offpunk a try:
Offpunk, an offline-first command-line browser
Offpunk Tutorial
 I’m trying to make it easier to get started with offpunk. Feedbacks and discussions are welcome on the mailing-list :
~lioploum/offpunk-users archives — lists.sr.ht
 or on the fediverse, using the #offpunk hashtag. Or on your blog. That would be awesome to read blog posts about people using offpunk #python #cli #linux #command_line #offline
— Dear traveler from the future, for years I’ve assembled a huge collection of dystopian novels. Now that you are there, tell me! Which one nailed it? Which dystopia is the more realistic. He took a look before replying softly. — All. All of them.
"China’s DeepSeek stole what we have stolen" cried OpenAI executives. End of the story.
Currently trying #pixelfed : It looks like you can follow pixelfed people from Mastodon but the opposite is not entirely true: from what I see, pixelfed users will only see mastodon posts featuring a picture. This is big disappointment. (not even posts with link preview are displayed)